Can OzLit Be Fun?

Joseph Earp is a novelist, painter, and poet. His novel Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Ever Dated is out now through Pantera Press. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Vice, and more. He has twice been shortlisted for the Peter Carey Short Story Prize.

Sinéad Stubbins is a writer, editor and cultural critic in Naarm. Her work has appeared in print, online and on TV. Her first novel Stinkbug was released by Affirm Press in May 2025.

Patrick Marlborough is an underemployed writer/comedian/musician/drongo living with their parents in Walyalup, Western Australia. They have been published in Vice, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Slate, Gawker, Meanjin, Crikey, Kotaku, The Lifted Brow, KYD, Cordite, GDS, and various other forgotten blogs, magazines, and anthologies. The manuscript for their first novel, A Horse Held at Gunpoint, was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award in 2021. They are the founder and editor of The Yeah Nah Review, as well as Wharf Rat Press. They co-author all of their work with their bad dog, Buckley.
Website www.patrickmarlborough.com

Max Easton is a writer from Sydney. He is the creator of Barely Human, a zine and podcast series exploring underground music’s ties to counterculture and subculture. He is the author of two novels published by Giramondo: The Magpie Wing (longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award), and its follow-up Paradise Estate, released in 2023. He is currently working on his third novel.
Website www.maxeaston.com